Evidence for multiple shared antigenic determinants within Ro60 and other lupus-related ribonucleoprotein autoantigens in human autoimmune responses

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 175, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7669-7677

  Pal, Rahul ^a,b   Deshmukh, Umesh S ^a   Ohyama, Yukiko ^a,c   Fang, Qiang ^a   Kannapell, Carol C ^a   Gaskin, Felicia ^a   Fu, Shu Man ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; EPITOPE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RO ANTIBODY; SMD ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

EID: 28244445139     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.11.7669     Document Type: Article

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